RICHARD FARMER BIOGRAPHY
RICHARD FARMER BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
FARMER, RICHARD (1735-1797). —Shakespearian scholar, born at Leicester, and ed. at Camb., where he ultimately became Master of Emanuel Coll. He wrote an Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare (1767), in which he maintained that Shakespeare's knowledge of the classics was through translations, the errors of which he reproduced. It is a production of great ability. F. was a clergyman, and held a prebend in St. Paul's.